Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...

Scientists have been studying an interstellar object that's currently moving through our solar system which was first spotted on 1 July. It has been called 3I/ATLAS because of what spotted it, and ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

A rock from another solar system is a direct probe of how planetesimal formation took place at another star,” explained Michele Bannister, a planetary scientist at the Rubin Observatory. The recent ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...